Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Modern

Dialectical philosophy

Context

Philosophy of Right, Paragraph 318

Date / Period

1821

Source

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/pr/pr318.htm

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